Just thought I’d introduce myself. I love folk music of all types, can’t play an instrument however. I enjoy singing(sound pretty good in the shower 
)but wanted some way of joining in sessions at the local festivals, so I got myself a bodhran . I try and be polite with it 
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Hello and welcome!! 
Please stick around and post often!!
Welcome to the mad house!
Cass.
Who you calling mad? A wee bit daft maybe, but never mad 
Welcome Folkwench!
Mad, daft, whatever. sounds good. Thanks for the welcome.
From where I live Braidwood and Bundanoon are only hours apart.
Does the Bundanoon folk festival happen every year still?
The highland festival? It’s still going strong. type bundanoon australia in to your search engine, should be near the top of the page. Haven’t been to that one yet, though friends in the burns club pipe band go every year and love it. Fancy a bit of caber tossing do you?
Welcome!
Do check into the whistle board and consider giving the whistle a try… it’s really not hard to learn and extremely rewarding.
Welcome, welcome!
Welcome to the mad house! big grin
Who you calling mad? A wee bit daft maybe, but never mad
I ain’t none to certain 'bout that, your royalestness Izzy…
puts me in mind of-
But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice.
You must be,' said the Cat, or you wouldn’t have come here.’
I do have a whistle, a clarke D, that I can play a few tunes on. I very rarely get to practice because my 18m daughter loves it. I think its buried at the bottom of the toy box at the moment.
Don’t let madness upset you.
“Most people I know think that I’m cra-a-zee-eee-eee.”
Welcome to the ever expanding Chiff and Fipple!.. and the madness.
Welkommen, Bienvenu, Welcome, Failte!
Wenchfolk, I notice from your profile you like Australian folk music. Do you like Jenny M Thomas’ take on folk music?
http://www.jennymthomas.com/
polite-stuff:
Welcome to the merry old land of C&F Folkwench! May your bodhran turn to gold and fetch enough for a few whistles!
Enough polite stuff.
Aaarrrrr, Braidwood. I have some foggy memories of being near to there last year at Majors Creek - in the fog and wind and some of the best clear skies I’ve ever seen through the bottom of a glass that once had Tullamore’s in it. And the insane fiddle duels and the massed singing people, the morris with tabor and drum, and the Irish dance-guy jumping on the table, all glasses flying and crazy rhythms tapping madly out of his shoes while the fiddle guys played each other into melted lumps. Now that’s what I call a festival!
All goes well and I’ll be there again this year. It’s such a player’s festival that one. Knock on the tent and ask for Mitch - there’s better whistles than Clarkes Aaarrrrr;)
Welcome aboard. Please try to remember the following:
1 - It’s your round (It is a pub after all)
2 - Avoid politics
3 - talasiga has four syllables
4 - Ignore anything I tell you
No doubt further advice for survival on the board will be forthcoming.
Talasiga- Unfortunately I haven’t heard any of her music, yet, I now have a new purpose in life. I love The Bushwackers, Redgum, and a good session of Road to Gundagai in drunken harmony.
Mitch- I’ve been going to Majors Creek for the last 10+ years, love it. From your description I think I might know one of the fiddlers you mentioned. Jerry from Full Circle, I used to jam with them at the Irish club in Canberra every tuesday night. He jumps while playing, the low ceiling at the Collector Pumpkin Festival almost led to a nasty accident 
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jbarter- thanks for the welcome and the advice 
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Not quite. Add some waist length beards, battered Akubras and a lagerphone and your getting warmer.
Thanks to C&F, I can now swear in three languages!
Welcome to the forum 
This is NOT an auspicious beginning.